Trauma and Surgical Emergencies: Lessons Learned and How to Move On

Dear Colleagues,

More than 5 million people die annually from traumatic injuries. Therefore, as in all other areas of medicine, high-quality clinical research is of utmost importance in trauma surgery to improve the treatment of severely injured patients. In recent years, there has been tremendous progress in our knowledge of the treatment and prognosis of trauma. Considerable efforts have been made in reducing trauma mortality and morbidity. However, the comprehensive and high-efficiency management of severe trauma in the emergency department still faces enormous challenges.

This Special Issue is focused on trauma and surgical emergencies. It aims to provide a vivid and comprehensive scientific discussion on the contemporary topics that fall into the fields of trauma, psychological and emotional trauma and surgical emergencies. This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts focused on trauma and surgical emergencies, evidence-based practice, assessment, planning, and the implementation of care. We solicit manuscripts considering conceptual and theoretical frameworks, as well as original or review papers that describe and give evidence of the influence of the physical, mental, social, spiritual, emotional, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that affect all aspects of trauma and emergency care.

Dr. Evangelos Fradelos
Dr. Ioanna V. Papathanasiou
Dr. Maria Malliarou
Guest Editors

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• trauma
• psychological trauma
• emotional trauma
• emergency care
• critical care
• evidence-based practice